Today's News

Authorities are waiting for results from an autopsy report to decide if a 28-year-old Goode woman, accused of attacking her 77-year-old boyfriend, could be charged with murder following his death a week ago.

According to David Graves, the nursing home’s owner, the facility was founded in 1960 by Dr. John McCown. It’s always been at its current location, just west of Montvale on U. S. 460, although it has expanded substantially since then. The old house, built as a single family home in 1927, still forms its core and currently houses offices. At one point, in the 1950s, a company called Woodhaven Manufacturing operated there.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has decided to reintroduce elk to Virginia by relocating 75 elk to Buchanan County in Southwestern Virginia. The reintroduction could begin by 2012, with a limited hunting season for elk beginning four years later.

“The bad news is the elk are going into Buchanan County, but the good news is they are not going into the other two proposed counties, Wise and Dickinson,” stated Jeff Powers, chairman of Bedford County’s agriculture board.

Sometimes little boys say they want to be a fireman when they grow up.

In the case of Randale Smith, now a senior at Jefferson Forest High School, that’s exactly what he plans to be. In fact, he’s already doing it. Smith, who lives in Evington, already has his firefighter certification and is serving on the volunteer fire department there.
“It’s what I always wanted to do,” he said.

In all likelihood, Allen Lee Ford of Forest, a decorated marine combat veteran, will spend most, if not all, of the rest of his life in jail.

Ford, who turns 63 next month, was sentenced Friday to four years, five months in jail on one conviction of aggravated sexual battery in Bedford County Circuit Court. But he’s facing similar charges in other jurisdictions and once those are finalized, his sentence will be considerably more, according to Bedford County Commonwealth’s Attorney Randy Krantz.